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View Poll Results: Should the Cuban Embargo be ended?

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No. We cannot cooperate in making Communism successful 90 miles from the US coast

48.70%

Yes. Its time to end the Cuban Embargo.

3576.09%

Yes, but with limits, restrictions and tarrifs.

510.87%

Yes, but lets do it with democrats in power owning the backlash from the Cuban exile community.

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by MoSurveyor

I don't see how - but I'm willing to listen.

Well it will let them see North American culture in the products they import thus making them embrace ideas like democracy and freedom. When you import goods form America you import culture and values. Canada has a good relation but the only thing we send to Cuba is a crapton of tourists.

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by 0bserver92

Well it will let them see North American culture in the products they import thus making them embrace ideas like democracy and freedom. When you import goods form America you import culture and values. Canada has a good relation but the only thing we send to Cuba is a crapton of tourists.

although i hate communism, i dont like the idea of exporting democracy .........which is another vile form of government....lets export ...true republican government.

but i do feel that opening up free markets to Cuba, will bring down communism in that country.

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by TheDemSocialist

Yes. It never should of been put in place to begin with. Its time to do away with that embargo, its purpose was to weaken Castro and cause uprising against their economy and the Castro regime, that failed and it has failed from the beginning. If anything it has strengthened the Cuban people and the Castro's.

what would you have done if you were in power at the time?...... keep in mind that the Castro regime just nationalized US properties and businesses without compensation.( which is the very reason the embargo began)....

let's see how you would serve your citizens in the face of the livelihoods, their property, and their businesses being stolen by Castro

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by ernst barkmann

china is still communist, but they have had to relax and give a little more freedom to the people to allow commerce to expand in china...granted its not perfect.

The theory was that the rise of a middle class would require that they demand political power to match their economic power - a theory which now that I look back on it I think someone got from Marx. China opened up under Deng Xiaoping without us, and cracked down after Tiannamen despite us. Our trade with them has done nothing (that I can see) to make it's people freer, and has served to provide economic stability and long-life to a horrific and abusive regime.

when you allow commerce to flow, and for it to work , some freedom have to be expanded, or its not going to work.

Other than complete totalitarian state-allocated control over every resource? Yes. But that's hardly much of a baseline.

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by cpwill

The theory was that the rise of a middle class would require that they demand political power to match their economic power - a theory which now that I look back on it I think someone got from Marx. China opened up under Deng Xiaoping without us, and cracked down after Tiannamen despite us. Our trade with them has done nothing (that I can see) to make it's people freer, and has served to provide economic stability and long-life to a horrific and abusive regime.

Other than complete totalitarian state-allocated control over every resource? Yes. But that's hardly much of a baseline.

i not going to stake, what i believe as fact, its just how i think, ..you could be correct in your opinon of the situation.

but i dont see much changing over the last 54 years in our relationship with Cuba.

Re: Is it time to end the Cuban Embargo?

Originally Posted by Helix

it's past time. should have ended it a long time ago.

I would like to visit their but I am concerned about cheap completion for tourism dollars when our fellow Americans are struggling in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Plus florida's citrus and surgar industries could take a hit. At the same time I'm conflicted over competition because there's a part of me that believes after the initial adjustment most competition helps everybody.

That all said, I feel for the Cuban people.

Having opinions all over the map is a good sign of a person capable of autonomous thinking. Felix -2011